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>>lawles+(OP)
Why all those articles on HN are "flagged"? And by WHOM?

I've been watching this 60min piece, and there's nothing wrong with is. It's journalism well done.

Do Trumpist minions have their ways on HN?

>>mrjay4+nH
It only takes a few flags to be effective and there are definitely more than a few Trumpists on HN so theoretically yes. Could also be the likely much larger contingent of people who flag all "political" and "non-technical" content by default.

Like it or not Hacker News has never been (and will never be) a platform for free and open debate. It's designed around aggressive curation for quality over quantity and that makes it very easy to brigade by design.

>>krapp+LJ
> Could also be the likely much larger contingent of people who flag all "political" and "non-technical" content by default.

It could, but that'd be odd. We've seen oodles of structurally similar posts hang out on the front page unflagged before. There are even past examples of major posts criticizing the journalistic integrity of 60 Minutes. Only once the material becomes critical of the regime does it become flagged.